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Doug Peltz
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Doug Peltz
| image              = Doug Peltz.png
| birth_place        = United States
| alma mater         = [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]
| known for          = [[Mystery Science (company)|Mystery Science]]<br />[[Scantius aegyptius|Mediterranean red bug]]
| spouse             = Carrie Peltz
}}

'''Doug Peltz''', popularly known as '''Mystery Doug''', is an American [[Science communication|science communicator]] and [[entrepreneur]] based in [[San Francisco]]. He is best known as the host of the weekly science show Mystery Doug (2017 - today), now being watched by 1 out of every 5 children in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mystery.org|url=https://about.mystery.org/}}</ref>, and the co-founder and voice behind the popular science curriculum [[Mystery Science]].<ref>{{cite news|title=''Team — Mystery''|url=http://about.mystery.org/team|access-date=2022-06-28|archive-date=2020-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227042441/http://about.mystery.org/team|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> He was the first to discover that the [[Scantius aegyptius|Mediterranean red bug]] was now present in North America.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bryant|first1=Peter J.|date=October 2009|title=Invasion of Southern California by the Palearctic pyrrhocorid Scantius aegyptius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)|url=https://ia601409.us.archive.org/15/items/2009-27.1/2009-27.1.pdf|journal=The Pan-Pacific Entomologist|volume=85|issue=4|pages=190–193|doi=10.3956/2009-27.1|s2cid=86667893 }}<(contracted; show full)
== Other websites ==

* [https://twitter.com/dougpeltz Petz's Twitter]
* [https://medium.com/mystery-science Mystery Science blog]

[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from San Francisco]]